Clamping-support for tackle for car-unloading devices.



No. 801,757. PATBNTED OC-T.10, 1905.

J. G. WBSTBROOK. OLAMPING SUPPORT FOR TACKLE FOR GAR UNLOADING DEVICES.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 18, 1904.. RENEWED SEPT. 12, 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES GEORGE IVESTBROOK, OF OGDENSBURG, NEIV YORK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 10, 1905.

Application filed July 18, 1904. Renewed September 12, 1905. Serial No. 278,168.

To u.//- whom, it 'HI/LZ/Z/ concern.-

Be it known that I, Janus GEORGE WEST- BROOK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ogdensburg, in the county of St. Lawrence and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clamping- Supports for Tackle for Car-Unloading Devices; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in supports,and particularly to supporting means for tackle employed in conjunction with unloading devices for railway-cars.

The object in view is the provision of means for facilitating handling of the tackle employed in conjunction with unloading means for railway-cars and for preventing entanglement of such tackle.

IVith this and further objects in view the invention comprises, in combination with a railway-car, clamps engaging the casing of the doorway of such car, bracing means connecting said clamps, and blocks carried by the clamps.

It further comprises certain other novel constructions, combinations, and arrangements of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my present improved support illustrated as applied to a car. Fig. .2 represents a horizontal section through the side of the car, showing the present improved support in top plan.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, 1 indicates a car of the ordinary box type provided with a doorway 2, to which the present improved support is applied. The said support comprises a bar 3, extending transversely of the doorway 2 and having its ends projecting beyond the door-casings at each side of the doorway outside the car, a slot 4 being formed in the bar 3 near each end thereof, through which extends a clamping-bolt 5. Each bolt 5 consists of a rod extending through the respective slot 4 and threaded at its outer end for receiving a nut 6, the inner end of each of the rods, comprising a bolt 5, being bent into an eye 7 and then extended in the form of a member 8 at right angles to the main body portion of the rod, the member 8 in operation being adapted to engage the inside of the door-casing and the eye 7 being designed to carry a block 9 for supporting tackle 10, extending to the unloading apparatus. (Not illustrated.) Each nut 6 is preferably provided with handles 6 6 for facilitating manual actuation thereof.

The unloading apparatus may be ordinary shovels designed to be drawn back and forth within the car by means of the tackle 10, and it will be seen that the blocks 9 will support and efficiently prevent entanglement of such tackle while the same are supported by the eyes 7 when the clamping-bolts are in position. It will be observed, further, that when the nuts 6 are tightened sufliciently the members 8 will engage the inside of the door-casing and the projecting end of the bar 3 will engage the outside thereof, and the support will thus be effectually sustained in the given position.

It is to be noted that the slots t provide for the adjustment of the clampingbolts 5 longitudinally ot' the bar for adapting the support for use on cars having doors of varying widths, and it is further to be observed. that tackle-supporting means may be mounted directly upon the bar 3 instead of being carried by the clamping-bolts and further slight alterations may be made in the size and detail arrangement without departing in the least from the spirit and scope of the present invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a support, the combination with a car, of clamps engaging the door-casings thereof, means connecting said clamps, and tackle-supporting means carried by the clamps.

2. In a support, the combination with a car, of a bar extending transversely of the doorway thereof, clamping means carried by the ends of said bar, and tackle-supports carried by said clamping means.

3. In a support, the combination with a car, of a clamping means engaging the same, and tackle-supporting means carried by the clamping means.

at. In a support, the combination with a car, of a bar extending transversely of the doorway thereof, clamping means carried by said bar, and tackle-supporting means carried by the clamping means.

5. A support comprising a bar, bolts extending through the same, each of said bolts being bent into an eye and further bent into a clamping member, and tackle-supports carried by the eye of each of said bolts.

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In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my slgnature in presence of two Witnesses.

JAMES GEORGE WESTBROOK.

Witnesses:

EDWIN C. MULLIGAN,

J AMES M. WELLs. 

